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Category: Veterans

1 million vets get VA-funded private-sector care through program set to run out of money

New data show more than 1 million veterans annually rely on a program to get VA-funded private sector medical care, but the program could run out of money in two weeks if Congress doesn’t act.

Kushner-backed health care project gets ‘devastating’ review

The Pentagon report could delay the VA’s plans to install the multibillion-dollar software project begun under Obama.

Trump in cross hairs as veterans’ group slams VA Choice funding plan

An emergency funding measure to fill a budget shortfall at the Department of Veterans Affairs – proposed by lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives last week – is being deemed a violation of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises by one veterans’ group.

Trump’s Under-the-Radar Push to Dismantle Veterans Health Care

New legislation threatens to dismantle the most successful American experiment in government-delivered health care.

VA officials accused of using Trump-era law to target low-level workers and whistleblowers

Lawmakers from both parties expressed concern during a Congressional hearing Tuesday.

The Republican party has taken "a wrong turn" under Donald Trump, according to three GOP challengers to the president, and is heading down the road to totalitarianism as states cancel primaries in an attempt to give Trump an unimpeded path to the nomination in 2020.

With John Bolton dismissed, Taliban peace talks a fiasco and a trade war with China, US foreign policy is ever more unstable and confrontational

It was, by all accounts, a furious row. Donald Trump was talking about relaxing sanctions on Iran and holding a summit with its president, Hassan Rouhani, at this month's UN general assembly in New York. John Bolton, his hawkish national security adviser, was dead against it and… [more]